Job summary
An exciting senior level opportunity has arisen for a deputy director to support the Director of Corporate and Legal Affairs across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) Group compromising of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. The successful candidate will lead programmes of work to bring together teams across our hospitals to form a group-wide risk and legal services team working to the highest professional standards.
As a senior leadership role the post holder will promote a culture of continuous quality improvement to ensure best practice in the delivery of patient care, ensuring systems support improvements in integrated governance. The successful candidate will be responsible for a significant number of strategic policies and strategies, development and overseeing delivery.
Since the formation of UHN in 2021, both Trusts have agreed an ambitious Group Strategy 'Dedicated to Excellence' which sets out our strategic ambitions and priorities for the next five years. Over the last year the scope and model of collaboration across UHN has been reviewed and reset with a revised model including much greater integration of the executive and clinical leadership, governance and Board arrangements, building on the model developed in previous years.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Leadership of Risk and Legal Service
- Operates independently and autonomously, and is a visible lead for the Risk and Legal functions across UHN and wider system
- Provide leadership and makes decisions based on interpretation of a number of sources such as local and national policy context and complex service data and information, setting the goals and standards for others
Strategy, Policy and Governance
- Ensure a systematic approach is in place for the development, review, implementation, and dissemination of all policies, strategies and procedural documents from all departments and services across UHN, working towards standardisation and where possible integration across UHN
Risk Management and organisational control
- Responsible for Trust-wide, corporate service development of risk management and other software systems, working towards standardisation and where possible integration across UHN
Project, programme and change management
- Effectively use, develop and present complex and contentious data, information, reports and presentations providing a range of options and recommending outcomes for strategic decisions at board level
Programme planning
- Lead the development of robust, credible and effective short and medium term plans to deliver effective Risk Management and Legal Support, and ensure appropriate resources are made available and appropriately deployed to support delivery of the programmes.
About us
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire. Our Excellence Values: Compassion Respect Integrity Courageous Accountable
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the attached job description for further details on the role and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the attached job description for further details on the role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualification
Essential
- Masters level or above qualification and/or relevant experience plus extensive experience across a range of specialisms ( e.g. Risk Management, Project management, quality improvement, financial management, legal matters, people management)
- Evidence of additional education/training in general or healthcare managementX
Desirable
- Risk management or Legal qualification
Knoweldge & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior experience in managing risk and legal services and projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service related environment
- Extensive experience, acquired over a significant period of time acquiring specialist knowledge and solid proficiency in the effective application of various best practice tools and techniques in project, programme and change management, service redesign, facilitation and service improvement.X
- Experience of board/ committee level reporting and/or engagement and responding to challengeX
Skills
Essential
- Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change
- Financial acumen including experience of effective budget management and control, coupled with a detailed understanding of cost improvement methodology.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualification
Essential
- Masters level or above qualification and/or relevant experience plus extensive experience across a range of specialisms ( e.g. Risk Management, Project management, quality improvement, financial management, legal matters, people management)
- Evidence of additional education/training in general or healthcare managementX
Desirable
- Risk management or Legal qualification
Knoweldge & Experience
Essential
- Significant senior experience in managing risk and legal services and projects within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, preferably in a service related environment
- Extensive experience, acquired over a significant period of time acquiring specialist knowledge and solid proficiency in the effective application of various best practice tools and techniques in project, programme and change management, service redesign, facilitation and service improvement.X
- Experience of board/ committee level reporting and/or engagement and responding to challengeX
Skills
Essential
- Able to receive, process, summarise, interpret and effectively communicate highly complex, sensitive and contentious information where there are barriers to acceptance and resistance to change
- Financial acumen including experience of effective budget management and control, coupled with a detailed understanding of cost improvement methodology.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
